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Kathleen R Johnson

Associate Professor of Earth System Science

Earth System Science

kathleen.johnson@uci.edu

(949) 824-6174, 1060

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Researches climate change in the deep past, looking at ancient chemicals preserved in caves in places like Laos in order to reconstruct past climates.

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Climate, Minorities in STEM

Roberto Pelayo

Assistant Teaching Professor of Mathematics

Mathematics

rcpelayo@uci.edu

Pelayo leads Latinx education outreach at Physical Sciences. "I have partnered with the Latinx resource center to create this thing, it’s entirely in Spanish, called 'Mermeladas de Estudio.' It’s Spanish for “study jams,” he said.

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Minorities in STEM

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UCI, Tsinghua University: California’s 2018 wildfires caused $150 billion in damages

Study shows health and socio-economic costs extended far beyond burned areas

Dec 7, 2020

Can something the size of a few washing machines find the biggest thing in the Universe?

UCI physicists have designed and built a new particle detector called FASER that could lift the veil on one of the Universe’s most enduring mysteries.

Dec 7, 2020